Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest mark in an open competitive examination conducted by the Civil Service Commission. To qualify, a candidate must have been a bona fide patron of the post office in question for at least one year, must be under 67 unless he is already a postal employe or a war veteran. Commented Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, co-author of the defeated June bill: "I feel confident that this advance ... of the merit system . . . will never be undone...
...some 40,000 cheering, rebel-yelling spectators. Five thousand automobiles were parked around the field. Through loudspeakers, Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader and biographer of Robert E. Lee, began telling the story of the battle. Listeners grinned as this son of a Confederate veteran kept referring to the Southern forces as "our side." In the stands sat Harry Wooding, 92, mayor of Danville, Va. since 1892, who had fought under Longstreet at Manassas. Also present was General Longstreet's son, Colonel Robert Lee Longstreet...
...particular brand of the Hereafter, a realm which has been most conspicuously charted by such Britons as Rev. G. Vale Owen and Sir Oliver Lodge. The fact that Brandon uses such contemporary words as "job" and "fun" he explains by recounting how a number of "Masters" (i. e., veteran spirits) transported him "by their mental power," on a lengthy tour of the great cities of the world. The ability of spirits to visit the Earth, Brandon makes clear, has nothing to do with their life on the "Astral" plane, from which eventually they may ascend to a "Spiritual" plane. Spirit...
...navigator aboard Brilliant last week was 45-year-old Alfred Fullerton Loomis, one of the most experienced ocean racers in the world. On a submarine-chaser during the War, Sailor Loomis has spent most of the years since then scudding about the world in small sailboats. A veteran of one transatlantic, two Fastnet, four Bermuda races, he is an accepted authority on small-boat sailing, the author of severa topnotch nautical books. Last week, as he stood on Brilliant's deck watching victory slip from his grasp, there was published in Manhattan another top-notch Loomis book, Ocean Racing...
Despite the many newspaper tales of sots and suicides arising last week from the Bonus payment of $1,900,000,000 in black & green $50 bonds, the average Veteran played a watchful, waiting game. American Legion questionnaires had estimated that the 3,500,000 recipients would spend 30% of the money toward payment of debts and old bills, 7% for housing repairs, 6% for automobiles, 7% for clothing, the rest in a free & easy manner. Of the same opinion, merchants of every variety had flooded the mails with circulars, kept their stores wide open at night. Get-rich-quick promoters...